Euro season

Spring is here and with it a fever spreads across Europe - hitting Sweden and Germany particularly bad. Some cheer whilst most sigh as the well-known circus of political voting, fake postcards and terrible musical acts we know as The Eurovision Song Contest starts all over again.

The competition doesn't take place until the 14th of May but fans are counting the days already. Today the one country that, apart from Italy and Austria (who declined participation for a few years, blaming the corrupt (!) and unfair voting system), year after year rolls its eyes in utter disgust at the event released the official video for their entry.

The UK, placing last year after year after competing with forced entries taking the piss out of the whole affair are in for a 180. Because this year, things are about change. Watch and learn, Sweden.

Oh and for those (many) of you, feeling the sick rise in your throats at the very thought of Eurovision, here's a little something something released today for you to enjoy:

The Haunted – Unseen

One month until Haunted release

With a month to go until THE HAUNTED release their new album "Unseen", following "Versus" released in 2008, the excitement is almost unbearable. To try and calm the nerves, here is the first single off the album; Disappear.

Radio stations have been playing it for a couple of weeks - we stole it from someone who ripped it off our fave programme The Rock Show.

Of course, YouTube doesn't do it justice and with a taster like this I can do nothing but put an online order in asap. I need this album in my mailbox, and more importantly my CD player, on the day of release.

As Peter Dolving finally lets go of his fear and is singing properly, just like his band mates always wanted him to, we get carried away and disappear into rock'n'roll heaven...